2015/11/19

# 06 EXPLAINING

I really don't know if anybody's interested in the following, but I just feel like explaining what happened in India to me while I stayed at the Idex Camp in Goa to not to feel guilty after the last post I published about it.

As I already mentioned : I didn't like it at all.

I wrote about how we were supposed to teach the children and women (without a plan and with really less materials). It was the first time I did Volunteer work and actually I was really impressed of the thought not just to visit such a poor country but at least to try to change something.

So, in my opinion it could be improved a lot in the future, I didn't have the feeling to even got the chance to do something. To me it felt only commercial and it doesn't seem like the manager (I plainly want to exclude the stuff from this statement) cares about the project at all.

Anyhow I got the feeling that money was the main thing for him also in many other areas of that whole 'foreigners-in-india-thing' he is in charge for, which is the main problem there according to me.

I also mentioned that a lot of other people complained or/and left the camp earlier.

Luckily at the end our laments achieved some changes which I don't want to enumerate here. I simply feel like saying that it got better in time, but it shouldn't happen that way.

In my view it is almost outrageous that there's the need of volunteers/guest to complain as persistent as we did to make their stay and even the work there as they expected it to be when decided to join that program. And last but not least we did never hear anything like 'thank you for doing this/for trying to help my country'... (We PAY to WORK there.. wouldn't it be appropriate to at least mention that even once ?)

But I can only repeat that all that is only my personal view about the Idex Camp in Goa. I am not in the position to talk for anybody else or about any other Idex Camps in India.

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